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BULLETINS  OF  THE  PRESIDING 
BISHOP  AND  COUNCIL  OF  THE 
PROTESTANT  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH 

SERIES  OF  1921  BULLETIN  NO.  4 


The  Pearl 
Of  The  Antilles 


EL  MORRO:  GRIM  GUARDIAN  OF  HAVANA  HARBOR 


Issued  by 

Department  of  Missions  and  Church  Extension 


PUBLISHED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  PUBLICITY 
281  FOURTH  AVENUE 
NEW  YORK  CITY 


Bulletins,  Series  of  1921. 


1.  Introductory  Bulletin.  Publicity. 

2.  Budget  for  1921.  Finance. 

3.  Diocesan  Programme  for  Religious  Education.  Reliyious  Education. 

4.  The  Pearl  of  the  Antilles.  Missions. 


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ndros  Is. 


The  Pearl  of  the  Antilles 


T^OR  nearly  four  hundred  years  Cuba  was  an  isolated  colony  of 
Spain.  Its  material  development  had  been  dwarfed  by  the 
Spaniard’s  policy  of  forbidding  colonists  to  produce  commodities 
which  could  be  raised  in  the  mother  country.  In  the  Pearl  of  the 
Antilles  this  meant  that  a  land  endowed  with  great  vegetable  and 
mineral  wealth  could  not  be  used  to  the  best  advantage,  or,  to  be 
specific,  could  be  used  only  for  the  production  of  sugar  and  tobacco. 

The  result  _  difficult  when 

<>!'  this  cco-  t<)  the  Ann  r 

mimic  policy  icon  price  of 

perhaps  meat,  and 

more  appal¬ 
ling  today 
than  ever  be¬ 
fore,  since 
Cuba  being  a 
t  w  o-crop 
country  has 
to  import 
most  of  its 
f  o  odstuffs 
and  essen¬ 
tial  commo¬ 
dities,  and  in 

these  times  most  expen- 

of  high  prices  Bishop  Hulse  sive  land  to 

living  is  very  1  i  v  e  in. 

Whether  it  is  worse  than  some  of  the  South  American  countries  it  is 
impossible  to  say,  but  certain  it  is  that  one  of  the  chief  problems  of 
the  clergy  of  the  Church  in  Cuba  is  making  ends  meet  financially. 

Next  to  Mexico,  Cuba  is  our  nearest  neighbor,  but  since  the  means 
of  transportation  between  the  States  and  the  Island  republic  are  so 
many  and  excellent,  it  really  is  nearer  to  us  than  the  republic 
across  the  Rio  Grande.  The  Island  of  Cuba  is  730  miles  long  and 
averages  about  60  miles  wide.  Except  when  labor  troubles  inter¬ 
vene  all  parts  of  it  are  accessible  by  railroad.  The  largest  cities 
are  Havana  (400,000),  Santiago  (70,000),  Cienfuegos  (80,000), 
Camaguey  (80,000),  Matanzas  (60,000).  The  total  population  of 


c  o  m  m  e  s  - 
tibles,  and 
bar  dwar  e, 
and  clothing, 
etc.,  must  be 
added  freight 
from  the 
United 
States  a  n  d 
customs 
duty.  Some 
say  that 
Cuba  is  the 


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the  Island  is  well  over  two  and  a  half  millions,  which  means  that 
its  density  is  less  than  sixty  to  the  square  mile — a  very  low  average. 

While  the  cities  are,  comparatively  speaking,  progressive  and  the 
people  who  dwell  in  them  well  taken  care  of,  the  country  districts 
are  in  a  very  backward  state.  Those  who  can  remember  the  revo¬ 
lution  of  twenty-five  years  ago  will  recall  that  the  Spaniards  were 
able  to  have  their  own  way  in  the  cities  but  were  quite  unable  to 
cope  with  the  situation  in  the  undeveloped  part  of  the  country. 

It  would  be  hard  for  an  American  to  realize  how  void  of  all  the 
conveniences  of  life  are  the  rural  districts  wherein  live  more  than 
half  of  the  population  of  the  Island.  This  applies  in  matters  re¬ 
ligious  quite  as  well  as  in  things  secular.  In  a  letter  recently  re¬ 
ceived  from  Bishop  Hulse  is  the  statement  that  along  the  main  line 
of  the  railroad  which  connects  the  east  and  the  west  of  the  Island 
there  is  nothing  done  for  the  people  by  any  religious  body  between 
the  towns  of  Camaguey  and  Ciego  de  Avila.  If  translated  into 
our  own  geography  this  would  be  equivalent  to  saying  that  there 
were  no  church  services  between  Richmond,  Virginia,  and  Charles¬ 
ton,  South  Carolina. 

Since,  as  has  been  indicated,  Cuba  is  a  land  of  great  mineral  and 
vegetable  wealth  it  will  not  be  long  before  this  now  under-populated 
country  is  filled  to  overflowing.  Already  people  have  begun  to  pour 
in,  and  because  of  this  it  is  high  time  for  the  Church  to  increase 
her  efforts.  The  newcomers  are  in  some  instances  from  the  United 
States- — men  who  are  going  down  there  to  work  on  or  manage  the 
sugar  plantations,  or  to  raise  citrus  fruits,  or  to  work  the  great 
manganese  and  iron  mines  in  the  north-eastern  corner.  Then  there 
are  Jamaicans  coming  in  great  numbers  to  work  at  the  cutting  of 
the  sugar  cane.  The  Bishop  says  that  during  the  last  year  they 
have  been  coming  in  by  hundreds  and  even  thousands  every  week. 
Lastly,  there  are  people  from  old  Europe  who,  having  heard  of  the 
wealtli  of  this  new  land,  are  hastening  to  take  advantage  of  its 
riches. 

The  first  services  of  our  Church  in  Cuba  were  held  in  private,  it 
being  against  the  law  to  hold  non-Roman  services  in  public.  They 
were  begun  in  1863  and  were  held  in  English,  and 
EARLY  were  for  the  benefit  of  the  many  English-speaking 

HISTORY  foreigners  engaged  in  business  in  Havana. 

In  1871  Bishop  Whipple  visited  Havana.  Per¬ 
mission  to  hold  public  services  was  denied  him,  so  recourse  had  to 


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be  made  to  an  American  man-o’-war,  which  was  put  at  his  disposal, 
and  here  he  celebrated  the  Holy  Communion  on  May  11,  1871. 
His  visit  aroused  an  interest  both  in  Havana  and  in  America,  and 
a  sum  of  money  was  subscribed  for  the  support  of  a  resident 
chaplain. 

The  Rev.  Edward  Kenny  was  the  first  man  appointed  by  Bishop 
Whipple.  Under  him  regular  work  was  established  in  Havana 
despite  the  fact  that  the  attitude  of  the  civil  authorities  was  an¬ 
tagonistic  and  the  established  Church  tried  its  hardest  to  drive  him 
out.  These  things  being  so,  Mr.  Kenny’s  public  services  had  to  be 
confined  to  foreigners — and  held  in  one  of  the  hotels.  In  his 
private  services  no  lines  were  drawn,  and  he  ministered  as  best  he 
might  to  all  who  came  to  him  in  trouble — black  or  white,  Spanish 
or  English-speaking. 


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After  the  outbreak  of  civil  war  in  the  Island,  in  1875,  a  large 
number  of  Cubans  were  driven  into  exile;  many  of  them  came  to 
America  where  they  found  themselves  in  contact  with  American 
Christianity  which  they  soon  learned  to  value.  Centers  of  worship 
were  provided  for  these  refugees  in  Key  West,  Philadelphia  and 
New  York. 

It  was  at  this  same  time  that  the  American  Bible  Society  began 
to  circulate  the  Scriptures  in  Cuba  and  that  some  of  their  native 
agents  became  candidates  for  the  ministry  of  the  Church.  In  this 
way  our  first  congregation,  that  in  Matanzas,  was  started,  and  sim¬ 
ilarly  other  centers  of  work.  They  flourished  so  well  that  in  1885, 
when  Bishop  Young,  of  Florida,  visited  the  Island,  325  candidates 
were  presented  for  confirmation. 

But  for  a  long  time  the  new  workers  were  unable  to  make  things 
go  as  they  ought  because  it  was  thought  to  be  against  the  law  to 
worship  God  except  under  the  auspices  of  the  Spanish  Church. 
However,  our  Senor  Duarte,  the  leader  of  the  Matanzas  mission, 
knew  the  law  better  than  his  oppressors  and  forced  the  issue  with 
the  local  authorities  by  appealing  to  the  Spanish  Government,  with 
the  result  that  a  royal  decree  was  obtained  affirming  the  religious 
freedom  law  as  passed  in  Madrid  in  1876. 

In  1887  Bishop  Whitaker  was  given  the  oversight  of  the  Cuban 
Mission,  and  the  American  Church  Missionary  Society  assumed  re¬ 
sponsibility  for  its  maintenance.  An  unpretentious  building  was 
erected  in  Matanzas  and  another  was  purchased  in  Jesus  del  Monte, 
a  suburb  of  Havana.  An  American  missionary,  Rev.  Mr.  Mellen, 
was  appointed,  and  an  active  campaign  was  planned. 


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The  outbreak  of  the  next  revolution,  however,  prevented  this 
movement  from  maturing.  The  attitude  of  the  civil  authorities 
compelled  Mr.  Mellen  and  his  assistants  to  with- 
CUBA  LIBRE  draw,  and  for  a  time  their  efforts  seemed  frus¬ 
trated.  But  it  is  a  long  lane  that  knows  no  turn¬ 
ing.  The  issue  of  war  was  finally  decided  in  favor  of  the 
revolutionists  and  Cuba  was  set  free  to  work  out  her  own 
destiny.  As  a  result  all  of  Spain’s  laws  were  withdrawn  and 
brighter  prospects  dawned.  Our  missionaries  returned,  and  aggres¬ 
sive  work  was,  after  many  weary  years,  at  last  begun.  In  1901 
the  General  Convention  constituted  Cuba  a  missionary  district, 
but  unfortunately  put  off  the  election  of  a  bishop  until  its  next 
session. 

In  1904  the  Rt.  Rev.  A.  W.  Knight  was  consecrated  Bishop  of 
Cuba.  He  went  to  the  field  in  January,  1905,  and  called  a  confer¬ 
ence  of  the  workers  at  once.  At  this  the  following 
BISHOP  programme  was  drawn  up:  “To  seek  out  the  Amer- 

KNIGHT  ican  and  English  residents,  to  shepherd  the  sliep- 

herdless  of  whatever  nationality,  to  provoke  to 
good  works  of  the  old  Church  in  the  Island  and  the  different  mission¬ 
ary  organizations  at  work  in  Cuba,  to  teach  Christianity  as  this 
Church  has  received  it,  without  rancor  to  others,  and  without 
apology  for  our  mission.”  This  has  remained  the  programme  and 
the  policy  of  the  American  Church  in  Cuba  ever  since. 

Under  Bishop  Knight’s  vigorous  leadership  the  work  began  to 
develop  rapidly  along  the  following  lines:  First,  work  among  Eng¬ 
lish-speaking  colonists ;  second,  among  native  Cubans ;  third,  among 
Jamaican  negroes. 

American  interest  in  Cuba  drew  many  of  our  countrymen  there 
after  the  Spanish-American  War.  Some  settled  in  the  cities.  In 

Havana,  for  example,  there  is  a  large  American 
WORK  AMONG  colony,  engaged  in  every  kind  of  commercial 
AMERICANS  enterprise.  For  them  we  have  a  beautiful 

Cathedral  in  which  services  are  held  both  in 
English  and  Spanish,  and  in  which  at  the  close  of  the  Great  War  the 
city’s  public  service  of  thanksgiving  was  held.  Others  settled  out¬ 
side  the  cities  on  plantations,  and  it  is  among  them  that  our  most 
extensive  English  work  is  done.  Attracted  by  the  beautiful  climate 
they  have  established  themselves  in  small  settlements,  seeking  in 


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most  instances  to  make  a  living  by  raising  citrus  fruits,  oranges, 
lemons,  pineapples,  and  grapefruit. 

Though  they  escape  many  of  the  discomforts  of  the  North,  the 
tropics  have  their  own  ways  of  discomforting  the  stranger.  To 
begin  with,  Northern  women  find  the  constant  heat  enervating;  then 
they  are  much  annoyed  by  the  multiplicity  of  insect  life.  Mosqui¬ 
toes,  fleas,  gnats,  cockroaches,  ants  and  other  pests,  which  a  cold 
climate  kills,  abound. 

The  men  find  that  the  ordinary  temptations  of  life  come  with  re¬ 
doubled  force  under  the  tropical  sun.  The  Cubans  are  a  sober 
race,  but  the  Northern  settler  finds  many  temptations  to  drink, 
and  if  he  ffives  wav  he  soon  falls  into  other  and  more  serious  vices. 

O  %! 

It  must  not  be  inferred  from  this  that  all  Americans  in  Cuba  live 
w  ild  lh  res,  but  it  should  be  inferred  that  what  the  scientists  tell  us 
about  the  unfavorableness  of  the  tropics  for  people  from  the  North 
is  true,  and  that  those  who  go  down  there  need  the  steadying  hand 
of  the  Church.  As  a  worker  of  many  years  service  wrote: 

“Subject  to  the  conditions  of  life  in  a  new  country — where  the 
old  neighborhood  restraints  no  longer  exist,  these  settlers  are  in 
especial  need  of  the  ministrations  of  the  Church.  They  need  the 
restraints  and  incentives  of  religion.  Patriotism  and  Christian 
statesmanship,  as  well  as  Christian  devotion,  force  upon  us  our  re¬ 
sponsibility  for  our  own  people.  We  must  do  our  part  in  seeing 
that  the  Americans  are  well  represented  in  this  neighboring  island, 
that  the  Cubans  may  have  a  chance  to  see  what  kind  of  Christian 
manhood  is  produced  by  our  interpretation  of  Christianity.  High- 
minded  and  clean-living  laymen  make  our  best  missionaries,  and  if 
we  cannot  bold  our  own  we  will  be  able  to  make  little  impression 
on  those  outside  the  fold.” 

One  of  the  centers  of  American  life  is  on  the  Isle  of  Pines.  There 
are  five  missions  of  the  Church  there,  four  church  buildings  and 
one  rectory.  The  one  missionary  resident  on  the  island  holds  four 
services  every  Sunday,  making  his  way  from  place  to  place  in  an 
automobile,  driving  his  car  over  sixty  miles  each  Sunday  as  well 
as  preaching  four  sermons.  Other  American  colonies  of  this  kind 
are  to  be  found  all  over  Cuba,  many  of  them  being  located  in  iso¬ 
lated  and  remote  spots.  There  are  seventeen  of  them  where  services 
are  held  regularly,  and  others  where  the  missionaries  go  from  time 
to  time  as  they  find  opportunity.  Much  of  this  work  is  shifting  and 
uncertain,  as  colonies  change  their  character  or  sometimes  are  ahan- 


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Native  Home 


doned  completely.  But  in  many  instances  permanent  foundations 
are  being  laid,  and  even  where  that  is  not  the  case,  lives  are  being 
helped  and  souls  strengthened. 

Writing  in  June,  1920,  Bishop  Hulse  said  about  the  work  among 
American  colonists:  “Opportunities  continue  to  multiply.  But 
our  great  need  is  for  better  material  equipment  and  new  workers. 
The  present  material  prosperity  of  the  island  has  enlarged  our  op¬ 
portunities  and  increased  our  difficulties.  The  number  of  Ameri¬ 
cans  employed  on  the  large  sugar  estates  is  steadily  increasing  and 
a  good  proportion  of  the  newcomers  belong  to  the  Church.” 

In  some  respects  Cuba  is  still  a  frontier  country,  developing 
rapidly  in  many  places.  In  the  center  and  in  the  east  new  towns 

are  continually  springing  up.  There  are  some 
WORK  AMONG  considerable  places  where  no  religious  work  of 
THE  CUBANS  any  kind  is  carried  on.  It  is  the  policy  of  the 

Mission  to  search  out  sucli  places  and  start  serv¬ 
ices  in  Spanish.  Our  most  successful  work  is  being  done  in  this  way. 

A  few  years  ago  one  of  our  missionaries  went  to  a  town  of  this 
kind  and  started  services;  he  soon  had  a  congregation.  A  Sunday 
School  in  Connecticut  heard  of  the  situation  and  gave  the  money  for 
a  church.  Last  year  this  Mission  reported  103  baptisms. 


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It  is  sometimes  asked  why,  if  the  people  are  so  much  interested, 
they  do  not  put  up  their  own  churches.  The  answer  is  that  in  most 
cases  they  are  too  poor.  Cuba  suffers  from  absentee  ownership. 
One-third  of  her  sugar  mills  are  owned  in  the  United  States.  The 
workmen  in  many  of  these  places  see  very  little  money  from  one 
year’s  end  to  another.  They  are  paid  off  in  orders  on  the  company 
store.  At  the  end  of  the  year  when  a  settlement  is  made,  they  find 
they  have  eaten  up  or  worn  out  all  that  is  coming  to  them. 

This  side  of  our  work  has  substantial  characteristics ;  we  are 
building  for  the  future,  laying  the  foundations  of  the  national 
Church  which  is  to  be.  There  are  twenty-three  places  where 
services  are  held  regularly  in  Spanish.  The  largest  number  of  bap¬ 
tisms  and  of  candidates  for  confirmation  comes  from  these  places. 

In  his  address  to  the  1920  Convocation,  Bishop  Hulse,  referring 
to  the  great  boom  which  has  come  to  the  Cuban  sugar  industry,  said: 

“The  social  atmosphere  in  which  we  carry  on  our  work  remains 
much  as  it  was  last  year.  Prosperity  has  not  brought  happiness  or 
peace  to  the  country.  There  is  an  increasing  social  unrest;  there 
have  been  many  strikes  and  there  is  at  present  great  dissatisfaction 
among  the  working  classes  together  with  a  feeling  of  bitterness 
which  is  not  hopeful.  I  find  among  them  a  lack  of  confidence,  a 
spirit  of  cynicism  and  hopelessness  which  is  hard  to  contend  against. 

“Back  of  it  all  is  the  idea  that  Christian  idealism  is  not  possible 
of  realization,  that  it  is  no  more  than  a  beautiful  dream  and  that 
the  wise  man  is  the  one  who  intends  to  exploit  this  world  as  fully 
as  possible. 

“Living  in  this  atmosphere  as  we  do,  we  cannot  but  be  influenced 
by  it.  As  Christians,  however,  wre  must  combat  it  both  without 
and  within,  prevent  it  from  gaining  lodgment  in  our  minds  as  we 
insist  that  the  larger  values  of  life  are  capable  of  realization.” 

The  development  of  eastern  Cuba  has  brought  many  negroes  from 
other  parts  of  the  West  Indies,  especially  Jamaica.  Now  that  the 
Island  is  free  from  periodic  revolutions,  it  offers 
WORK  FOR  better  opportunities  for  making  a  living  than  can 
NEGROES  be  found  in  the  English  West  Indian  possessions. 

As  a  result,  beginning  about  ten  years  ago,  the 
Jamaican  immigration  has  proceeded  without  interruption.  Today, 


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as  has  been  already  said,  it  has  assumed  enormous  proportions.  The 
majority  of  people  thus  coming  into  Cuba  belong  to  the  Church  of 
England,  and  a  very  serious  obligation  is  therefore  laid  upon  the 
Church.  Referring  to  this  subject  in  June,  1920,  Bishop  Hulse 
said  that  though  the  new  comers  “desire  and  need  our  ministra¬ 
tions  we  cannot  reach  them  all  because  we  have  so  few  workers. 
We  have  need  at  the  present  moment  of  three  new  men  to  go  from 
place  to  place  in  the  Provinces  of  Camaguey  and  Oriente  organizing 
congregations  and  ministering  to  these  newcomers.” 

To  meet  the  situation  in  Cuba  and  to  minister  to  the  three  types 
of  people  that  have  been  described  we  have  as  follows : 

Twenty  clergy,  of  whom  eight  are  from  the  United  States,  and 
twelve  either  native  Cubans  or  Spaniards.  They  are  assisted  by 
ten  layreaders,  two  of  whom  are  postulants.  There  are  two  candi¬ 
dates  for  Holy  Orders,  and  there  are  two  ministers  of  another 
Church  seeking  admission  to  our  priesthood.  There  are  twenty-one 
organized  missions  and  fourteen  unorganized,  with  sixteen  church 
buildings  and  six  parish  buildings.  In  the  1920  Corivocational  Re¬ 
port  we  also  read  the  suggestive  fact  that  there  are  “six  vacant 
lots.”  This  means  that  there  are  six  places  badly  in  need  of 
buildings. 

The  clergy  last  year  ministered  to  2,057  communicants,  and  since 
statisticians  tell  us  that  in  figuring  church  membership  one  should 
multiply  the  communicant  list  by  two  and  half,  it  is  fair  to  say 
that  there  are  in  the  neighborhood  of  5,000  who  look  to  us  as  their 
leader  in  things  spiritual. 

The  most  important  part  of  any  church  work  is  the  educational. 
This  is  particularly  true  of  the  Diocese  of  Cuba.  It  is  only  after 
they  have  been  trained  from  their  youth  up  to  think  out  their  own 
problems,  and  how  to  think  them  out,  that  there  can  be  developed 
the  best  type  of  Christian  citizenship.  Though  we  of  the  northern 
republic  cannot  boast,  we  can  at  least  claim  to  have  worked  out 
democracy  more  successfully  than  our  neighbor,  and  we  owe  our 
ability  to  have  done  so  entirely  to  the  kind  of  education  we  and  our 
forefathers  received.  The  most  valuable  contribution  that  we  can 


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make  to  Cuba  is  to  repro¬ 
duce  that  system  of  educa¬ 
tion  for  them,  and  it  is  to 
he  hoped  that  in  the  near 
future  we  shall  have  made 
long  steps  in  this  direction. 

For  the  present,  our 
educational  programme  is 
limited  to  nine  parish 
schools  and  one  industrial 
school.  Among  these  the 
largest  are  All  Saints’ 
girls’  school  in  Guantana¬ 
mo,  in  which  there  are  one 
hundred  and  ten  pupils 
with  six  teachers;  the  Ca¬ 
thedral  Schools  in  Havana, 

Waiting  for  the  Missionary  with  ninety-seven  pupils 

and  seven  teachers ;  and  a 
school  in  Santiago,  with  ninety-three  pupils  and  three  teachers. 
So  far  as  physical  development  is  concerned  that  in  Guantanamo 
is  the  most  advanced.  Most  of  the  money  necessary  to  put  up  a 
new  concrete  building  has  been  raised  and  we  hope,  as  soon  as 
conditions  shall  have  become  settled,  to  have  a  girls’  school  capable 
of  turning  out  women  who  will  he  leaders  of  the  Cuba  that  is  to  be. 
There  is  also  the  new  hoys’  school,  now  at  Marianao.  It  is  in  its 
infancy,  hut  it  is  vital  to  the  future  of  the  Church,  and  every  effort 
that  can  he  made  to  help  this  undertaking  is  gladly  encouraged 
by  the  friends  of  Bishop  Hulse. 

Though  they  are  very  poor,  the  people  are  giving  generously  to 
support  the  work  that  is  being  done.  Last  year  their  contribu¬ 
tions  totalled  $9,588.19,  which  when  added  to  the  amount  which 
was  received  in  school  fees,  $7,830.90,  makes  a  total  of  $17,419.09. 


The  Missionary  District  of  Cuba  includes  the  Island  of  Cuba 
and  the  Isle  of  Pines.  It  has  an  area  of  4,700  square  miles  and  a 
population  of  2,100,000.  For  the  support  of  the 
SUMMARY  work,  including  the  salary  and  traveling  expenses 
of  the  bishop,  the  Board  appropriates  about 
$60,000  yearly.  This  appropriation  aids  in  maintaining  forty-eight 
stations.  From  1904  to  1913  the  work  was  under  the  charge  of 


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the  Rt.  Rev.  A.  W.  Knight,  D.D.  In  the  latter  year  he  resigned 
to  become  the  head  of  the  University  of  the  South.  The  Rt.  Rev. 
Hiram  R.  Hulse,  D.D.,  was  consecrated  Bishop  of  Cuba  on  Janu¬ 
ary  12,  1915. 


CLERGY  CANONICALLY  RESIDENT  IN  THE 
MISSIONARY  DISTRICT  OF  CUBA 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Hiram  Richard  Hulse,  D.D.,  Bishop,  Havana. 
The  Rev.  Emilio  Planas  y  Hernandez,  Limonar. 

The  Ven.  W.  W.  Steel,  Havana. 

The  Rev.  Juan  Bautista  Mancebo,  Santiago. 

The  Ven.  Francisco  Diaz  Volero,  Havana. 

The  Rev.  William  H.  Decker,  Santa  Fe,  Isle  of  Pines. 

The  Rev.  H.  B.  Gibbons,  D.D.,  Havana. 

The  Rev.  William  Watson,  Guantanamo. 

The  Very  Rev.  George  B.  Myers,  Havana. 

The  Rev.  Simon  Evangelista  Carreras,  Camaguey. 

The  Rev.  Pablo  Munoz,  Havana. 

The  Rev.  Percy  Homer  Asheton-Martin,  Havana. 

The  Rev.  Juan  McCarthy,  La  Gloria. 

The  Rev.  Miguel  J.  Mesegue  Tomas,  Sagua  la  Grande. 

The  Rev.  Sergio  Ledo  y  Rodriguez,  Los  Arabos. 

The  Rev.  Jose  Gonzalez  Pena,  Matanzas. 

The  Rev.  Ramon  Cesar  Moreno,  Cienfuegos. 

The  Rev.  Ricardo  D.  Barrios,  Bolondron. 

The  Rev.  Aniceto  Granda,  Jovellanos. 


This  pamphlet  may  be  obtained  from  the  Literature  Office,  De¬ 
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